Primate Bites in Gibraltar — Minor Casualty Quirk?
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Scottish Medical Journal
- Vol. 34 (5) , 519-520
- https://doi.org/10.1177/003693308903400503
Abstract
In one year 55 patients presented to the casualty department of St Bernard's Hospital, Gibraltar, with a primate bite. The implications of such wounds on the health of these patients is contrasted with the morbidity and mortality associated with primate bites in the African subcontinent.Keywords
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